[hermittoad]

I’m guessing with West you refer to the ~1 billion people that live in Western Europe + USA + Canada + Australia.

I constantly see in Hacker news that people react to news of Asian countries (China in particular) as if the only other alternative is “The west”. Most of the world is neither China nor the West, why are we stuck in this dichotomy? Does the rest of the world not matter?

For this topic in particular, Google is ubiquitous in most of the world (The west, but also Latinamerica, Africa, many places in Asia), so it’s not a West phenomenon